One of the most popular Valley Fever posts over the last couple of years was about a New Jersey man nabbed by Department of Public Safety officers while moving about 500 pounds of weed in his truck. Busting someone for moving large amounts of ganja isn’t too strange in this part…
We knew it was only a matter of time before some Detroit-loving dickhead chucked a dead octopus on the ice during the first round of the NHL playoffs; we just thought it would happen in Detroit. That was not the case, though. Before the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 playoff win over the Detroit…
As you may recall, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth has pledged for months that on April 15, he will reveal the names of those who’ve donated money to a trust fund he set up to help pay legal bills he incurred defending himself from potential charges over his relationship with shamed…
An Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he was bitten by a rattlesnake after kayaking in the Gila River over the weekend.Cecil Tidwell, 57, was heading down river near Rainbow Valley on Sunday when rough water forced him to bring his kayak to land and try to hike his…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth has scheduled two debates with Senator John McCain, seemingly based on a New Times article featured in Valley Fever yesterday.As a side note to a post about the McCain campaign’s latest Web video — to point out that McCain says he welcomes debates with Hayworth –…
The Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project announced today that it will submit more than enough signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office to get an initiative that would legalize the use of medical marijuana on the November ballot here.The initiative only requires 153,356 signatures to get on the ballot in Arizona, but the AMMPP…
Requests made by “spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray and his lawyers to subpoena emergency workers who responded to the Sedona sweat lodge that left three people dead and dozens injured, was quashed by a Yavapai County judge. Ray and his attorneys sent 10 subpoenas to various emergency responders, hospital staff, and…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his latest, dehumanizing, inmate “incentive program” is so successful that parents should use it on their “couch potato” children. Two weeks ago, Arpaio unveiled “Pedal Vision,” a stationary bike rigged up to a television. As an inmate pedals, the bike creates enough electricity to power the TV. If…
Attention Valley teens: Just when you thought your weed stash was safely hidden from your parents, get ready to say “fuuuuucccck!”A Chandler woman has started a business called Desert Drug Dog, where she rents out her retired, drug-sniffing dog to parents who suspect their teens of using drugs.Amy Halm and…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth is taking a stand against Senator John McCain’s potential support of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hypothetical nomination to the Supreme Court.There’s only one problem: McCain has never said whether he would support her nomination, and the White House told Politico yesterday, “The president thinks Clinton…
A Prescott Valley police car took a golden shower and two men got arrested after witnesses say they pissed on the car as it stereotypically sat in a Denny’s parking lot over the weekend.Prescott Valley Police Sergeant Art Askew tells New Times that, about 2:30 Saturday morning, Nathaniel Stropko and Jasen Venable,…
The leader of a group of Valley bank robbers, who wore wigs during the majority of their heists, was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today.Julio Cesar Feliciano, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 106 years in federal prison this morning for his role…
Back in December, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio participated in a Meet the Press-type discussion at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and before getting heckled out of the room by some overzealous protesters, he told the panel how much he missed the days when a reporter…
John McCain’s latest Web ad has created a little controversy, and now his opponent in the GOP primary for Senate, J.D. Hayworth, is speaking out about it. In case you missed it, the ad is billed as a J.D. Hayworth campaign ad, where he discusses some of the serious problems…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced yesterday that Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, had been moved from the jail’s general population to the its loony bin after assaulting two other inmates and then refusing to eat some of Joe’s “loaf.” Despite Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s public touting of Johnson as…
The Tempe Police Department, in collaboration with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, will conduct “special enforcement” of busy Tempe intersections for the next two weeks, the department announced today.Lucky for you, the department was kind enough to give us a list of places they will be patrolling extra hard, which…
Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, apparently wasn’t playing too nice with some of the other Maricopa County jail inmates, and as a result, has been sent to the jail’s psychiatric ward after refusing to eat some of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “loaf.”Despite the sheriff’s public touting of Johnson as the…
Congratulations drug addicts — doctors hope to prove that the cure for your addiction is the actual cause of your affliction: More drugs!Doctors from around the globe are meeting in San Jose, California, this week to revisit the topic of hallucinogenic drugs used to treat stuff such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic…
One of the finer — and least hygienic — traditions in the game of puck is what is known as “the playoff beard.” It’s a gross tradition believed to have been started in the 1980’s by the New York Islanders, and the Phoenix Coyotes are hoping to bring it to…
Someone over at John McCain’s campaign headquarters has a hell of a funny bone.For the second time in two weeks, a McCain press release has given us a chuckle at the expense of his GOP Senate primary opponent J.D. Hayworth, and the latest seems to wrap all of Hayworth’s boneheaded…
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is wasting no time in attacking his GOP primary opponent for attorney general, Maricopa County’s former brown-bashing County Attorney Andrew Thomas.Thomas quit his gig as county attorney last week to run for state attorney general — a job Horne has been eying for the better part…
The pride and joy of the golf program at Arizona State University, and choke-artist extraordinaire, Phil Mickelson defied the odds and beat sex legend Tiger Woods at the Masters over the weekend and put the media’s attention back where it belongs — on Tiger’s sexcipades. After Tiger’s five months away from the media, reporters…
